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Showing posts with label Saint Augustine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saint Augustine. Show all posts
Monday, April 06, 2020

"See what the fear of temporal evils does and how great an increase of eternal woes results" ~ Saint Augustine's last letter

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Saint Augustine on his deathbed, by Ottaviano Nelli in the Church  of Sant'Augostino in Gubbio, Itay   In the year AD 430, Roman nor...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

"We found two men of stupendous size" ~ The discovery of the relics of Saints Gervasius and Protasius by Ambrose of Milan

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Detail from Phillipe de Champaigne's painting entitled: The Discovery of the Relics of Saints Gervasius and Protasius (1653)  June ...
Saturday, January 07, 2017

5th century bishop, Possidius of Calama, describes the last days of St. Augustine and the Vandal Conquest of Roman Africa

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Saint Augustine, one of the greatest intellects in human history and a Catholic apologist par excellence, lived and proselytized during the ...
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Monday, December 05, 2016

Saint Crispina, Martyr, AD 304

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Saint Crispina among the female martyrs in a 6th century mosaic. On December 5, in the year AD 304, a wealthy Roman matron named Crispi...
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A Roman tribune, my heroics helped defeat the Persians at the Battle of Satala in AD 530. Leading a squadron of heavy cavalry into the Persian center, I grabbed hold of the standards of the Persian general Mermeroes and flung them to the ground. Thinking their general slain, the Persian army fled from the field, but not before their elite Immortals dealt me a fatal wound.
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